President implies continuity from Hitler then to Putin & Co. now; echoes FDR's "rendezvous with destiny" and Eisenhower's "crusade in Europe"; stresses US responsibility for alliance system; This is tradition of country that never had a fascist government, never allied with fascism (unlike the USSR), and never appeased fascism;
In aftermath of criminal convictions, grievous damage to Trump's presidential chances begins to emerge: ABC News-Ipsos poll shows 49% of Americans want Trump to drop out, including 52% of independents, 67% of double haters, and a fatal 16% of Republicans; Morning Consult found that 54% of registered voters approved of the guilty verdicts, with 44% recommending a prison sentence and 49% calling for Trump to drop out, as did 15% of likely Republicans and 8% of self-identified Trump supporters;
a Reuters-Ipsos survey of 2,500 adults found 10% of Republicans and a quarter of independents reported they are less likely to vote for Trump; Even infamously pro-MAGA NY Times/Siena poll of registered voters grudgingly concedes a 2% drop in backing for Trump, reflecting a loss of 7% of his support, including over one fifth of his double haters; 46% approved of the guilty verdict; Trump's base turnout model is increasingly unworkable;
Bannon due at federal penitentiary by July 1 for four-month term, taking him out of fall campaign unless he is rescued by Supremes; Navarro stays in hoosegow; Prosecutions of 52 fake elector conspirators ongoing in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada; Giuliani disbarment recommended in DC;
But Georgia MAGA diehards temporarily block Fani Willis prosecution for most, but not all, of defendants; More contortions from Judge Cannon to slow classified documents case; Opinion on Trump's absurd immunity claim expected from Supremes later this month: brace yourself, for they are capable of any lawlessness;
Hunter Biden's Wilmington gun case a classic frameup by DoJ's Get Biden task force through Trump appointees Judge Noreika and prosecutor Weiss, whose choreography aims at mortifying president's entire family; Frameup depends on application filled out in several colors of ink with jury not allowed to see original, only copies; Weiss has no witnesses who saw Hunter using crack during time frame in question; No chain of custody for evidence means
FBI cannot guarantee that New York Post's infamous laptop was not tampered with when possessed by defendant Giuliani; Looks like 51 US intelligence chiefs were right after all in labeling this op as Russian disinformation; Hope resides in jury as reasonable doubt abounds; After covering Trump trial, bothsides media embrace railroading of Hunter;
Social science is aware of tendency of liberal democratic governments opposing fascist movements to ostentatiously fetishize hypertechnical formalisms of legal positivism; This dangerous tendency must be judiciously limited; Judge Merchan should imprison Trump now to show middle class that US constitutional government is far stronger than MAGA thuggery; Survival of the republic is the supreme law;
Biden presses two-faced Netanyahu to implement peace plan his own War Cabinet endorsed; US dock-pier-causeway back in service, much to chagrin of Hamas, Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and western nihilists; Jayapal & Co. dodge responsibilities of governing, snipe at Biden's unavoidable border measures; Bowman in trouble for June 25 NY primary; RFK's support dwindles as his moneybags Shanahan proclaims identity of views with Tucker Carlson;
that sank News of the World, great preparation for minimizing threat of MAGA; US media owners are buying propaganda support for oligarchical rule, appeasement, Malthusianism, anti-science, anti-Europe, hierarchical/stratified society with little or no upward mobility, and contempt for fate of US democracy;
Winnie didn't want it: Absurd D-Day commentary praising UK PM Sir Winston Churchill ignores his bitter opposition to cross-Channel second front in France in 1942 and 1943, with insistence on attacking mythical "soft underbelly" of Hitler's Festung Europa in Balkans; Soviets responded with secret June 1943 Molotov-Ribbentrop summit
Authoritarian Modi in India and kleptocrats of ANC in South Africa suffer reverses; In UK, plutocratic austerity ghoul Sunac heads for defeat, but is Labour ready to govern?; In European Parliament vote this weekend, neo-fascist Identity bloc is split as leading AFD candidate's defense of Nazi SS freaks out Le Pen and Salvini; Plurality for von der Leyen's EPP centrists looks stable, but beware results for demagogues Wilders in Netherlands, LePen in France, Orban in Hungary, and AFD in Germany.
@LiberalLibrarian Huh?🤨
@MichaelTalon That's a salute.
British invasion of US corporate media: Sir Mark (CNN) and Sir William (Washington Post) et al. control commanding heights of US media, along with Dame Anna, WSJ's Tucker, and Wapo's Winnett; Influx of cynics from Fleet Street, where methods of arch-reactionary Rupert Murdoch have dominated for decades; Qualifications include covering up pedophile TV star Jimmy Saville scandal at BBC and phone hacking scandal